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The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

I wanted to play some more grown-up music - jazz.

Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

I think Wes Montgomery is the greatest jazz guitarist that ever lived.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.